Shoprite Group Sales Surpass R250 Billion

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Guest – Pieter Engelbrecht, Chief Executive Officer of Shoprite Group

The Shoprite Group has published its results for the 52 weeks ended 29th June 2025, surpassing the R250 billion sales mark with sales growth of R20.6 billion for the period.

CEO of Shoprite, Pieter Engelbrecht, says the Group returned R16.5 billion at point-of-sale while successfully maintaining its selling price inflation at only 2.3% in its core Supermarkets RSA segment.

Shoprite and Usave recorded a sales increase of 5.9% translating to R6.5 billion in sales growth from a base of R110.1 billion with the Group managing to keep Shoprite’s pricing inflation below 2%.

Checkers recorded sales growth of 13.8%, adding R11.6 billion to reach almost R100 billion in sales while Sixty60 reported sales growth of 47.7% to measure R118.9 billion.
2 Sep 2025 12PM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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